On dark scary midnight, Mani, a thief, opens the door that was locked years ago to hide his stolen goods, from cops who were behind him. Next morning, people of Mallur were shocked to found Sudha's body inside of the Periyachi Amman temple.
Mani got scared when he got to know he has hidden his stolen goods inside the same temple. He took heave a sigh of relief, as his goods are inside a hidden room, which is deep inside the temple. So, he decided to stay in Mallur to take his stolen goods, and a place to hide from cops.
After discussing with temple priest and panchayat about the incident, they made sure to retain Periyachi Amman's purity and sacrality, they have to clean the temple and do a proper ritual to appease Periyachi Amman.
Everyone does the same, cleaned the whole temple. A worker who was trying to open the locked room for cleaning, was stopped by the priest "Be carefull, never ever try to open this door, even by mistake".
By hearing this, Mani thought that maybe there will be treasure inside that closed room, which he couldn't see on that night due to darkness. And made plans to steal it.
Cheziyan Iyer, trustee of temple, came to do the ritual. He was asked to revolve around the temple by holding the Kalash in his hand to appease Periyachi Amman. He got sudden changes in his behaviour, and attempted to commit suicide in temple's well.